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Kindness to Parents, Relatives, Kinsfolk and Severance of Ties
فضالة بن أيوب عن سيف بن عميرة عن ابن مسكان عن عمار بن حيان قال: اخبرني أبو عبد الله ببر ابنه إسماعيل له وقال: ولقد كنت أحبه وقد ازداد لي حبا ان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله اتته أخت له من الرضاعة فلما ان نظر إليها سربها وبسط ردائه لها فاجلسها عليه ثم اقبل يحدثها ويضحك في وجهها ثم قامت فذهبت ثم جاء أخوها فلم يصنع به ما صنع بها فقيل يا رسول الله صنعت بأخته ما لم تصنع به وهو رجل فقال: لأنها كانت أبر بأبيها منه.
3.Faḍālah ibn Ayyūb narrated from Sayf ibn ʿAmīrah, from Ibn Muskān, from ʿAmmār ibn Ḥayyān who said, “I was informed by Abū ʿAbdillāh about the dutifulness of his son Ismāʿīl towards him. He said, ‘I used to love him, and now my love for him has increased. Verily the Messenger of Allah (ṣ) was visited by his foster sister. When he saw her, he was pleased and spread out his cloak for her and made her sit on it. Then he began speaking with her and smiling at her. Later, she stood up and left. Subsequently, her brother came [to visit him] but he did not treat him as he had treated her. Someone asked, “O Messenger of Allah, you treated his sister in a different way than how you treated him while he is a man?” He replied, “Because she was more dutiful to her father than him.”’”
ابن أبي عمير عن الحسين عن عثمان (عمن) ذكره عن أبي عبيد الله عليه السلام قال: إن صلة الرحم تزكى الأعمال وتيسر الحساب وتدفع البلوى وتزيد في العمر.
4.Ibn Abī ʿUmayr narrated from al-Ḥusayn, from ʿUthmān, from the one who mentioned it, from Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) who said, “Verily keeping ties with close relatives purifies one’s deeds, makes the accounting easy, wards off afflictions, and increases one’s lifespan.”
ابن أبي عمير عن أبي محمد الفزاري عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: سمعته يقول: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: ان أهل بيت ليكونون برره فتنموا أموالهم ولو أنهم فجار
5.Ibn Abī ʿUmayr narrated from Abū Muḥammad al-Fazārī, who heard Abū ʿAbdillāh (a) saying, “The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) said, ‘Verily there may be a family that is dutiful [to their elders], so their wealth grows, even if they are sinful.’”
فضالة بن أيوب عن سيف بن عميرة عن ابن مسكان عن إبراهيم بن شعيب قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله عليه السلام: ان أبى قد كبر جدا وضعف فنحن نحمله إذا أراد الحاجة فقال: ان استطعت ان تلى ذلك منه فافعل ولقمه بيدك فإنه جنة لك غدا.
6.Faḍālah ibn Ayyūb narrated from Sayf ibn ʿAmīrah, from Ibn Muskān, from Ibrāhīm ibn Shuʿayb who said, “I said to Abū ʿAbdillāh (a), ‘Verily my father has become very old and weak, so we carry him [to the lavatory] when he needs to relieve himself.’ He said, ‘If you can continue doing that [yourself] then do so, and feed him morsels with your own hand, for that will be a shield for you tomorrow [from the Fire].’”
فضالة عن سيف بن عميرة عن محمد بن مروان عن حكم بن الحسين عن علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام قال: جاء رجل إلى النبي صلى الله عليه وآله فقال: يا رسول الله ما من عمل قبيح الا قد عملته فهل لي من توبة؟ فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: فهل من والديك أحد حي؟ قال: أبى قال: فاذهب فبره قال فلما ولى قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: لو كانت أمه!
7.Faḍālah narrated from Sayf ibn ʿAmīrah, from Muḥammad ibn Marwān, from Ḥakam ibn al-Ḥusayn, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (a) who said, “A man came to the Prophet (ṣ) and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, there is no ugly action but that I have performed it; is there any possibility of repentance for me?’ The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) replied, ‘Are any of your parents alive?’ He said, ‘My father.’ He (ṣ) said, ‘Then go and be kind to him.’ So when he had left, the Messenger of Allah (ṣ) commented, ‘If only it was his mother [who was alive]!’”
فضالة عن سيف بن عميرة عن أبي الصباح عن جابر قال: سمعت رجلا يقول لأبي عبد الله عليه السلام: ان لي أبوين مخالفين فقال له: برهما كما تبر المسلمين ممن يتو لا نا.
8.Faḍālah narrated from Sayf ibn ʿAmīrah, from Abū al-Ṣabbāḥ, from Jābir who said, “I heard a man saying to Abū ʿAbdillāh (a), ‘Verily I have parents who are against us (the Shīʿah).’ He said to him, ‘Be kind to them the way you are kind to the Muslims who have love for us.’”
فضالة عن سيف عن أبي الصباح عن جابر عن الوصافي عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال صدقة السر تطفي غضب الرب وبر الوالدين وصلة الرحم يزيدان في الاجل.
9.Faḍālah narrated from Sayf, from Abū al-Ṣabbāḥ, from Jābir, from al-Waṣṣāfī, from Abū Jaʿfar (a) who said, “Charity given secretly extinguishes the Lord’s wrath, and being kind to parents and keeping ties with near relatives increases lifespans.”
علي بن إسماعيل الميثمي عن عبد الله بن طلحة قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: إن رجلا أتى النبي صلى الله عليه وآله فقال: يا رسول الله ان لي أهلا قد كنت أصلهم وهم يؤذونني وقد أردت رفضهم فقال له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: اذن يرفضكم الله جميعا قال: وكيف اصنع؟ قال: تعطى من حرمك وتصل من قطعك وتعفو عمن ظلمك فإذا فعلت ذلك كان الله عز وجل لك ظهيرا قال عبد الله بن طلحة: فقلت لأبي عبد الله عليه السلام: ما الظهير؟ قال:العون
10.ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl al-Mīthamī narrated from ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṭalḥah who said, “I heard Abā ʿAbdillāh say, ‘A man once came to the Prophet (ṣ) and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I have a family with whom I had been keeping ties, yet they would hurt me, so now I want to repudiate them.” So the Messenger of Allah (ṣ) said to him, “In that case Allah will repudiate all of you together!” He asked, “Then what should I do?” He (ṣ) replied, “Give to the one who deprives you, establish ties with the one who cuts you off, and forgive the one who wrongs you. If you do that, Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, will be your succorer.”’” ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṭalḥah said, “I asked Abū ʿAbdillāh (a), ‘What is a succorer?’ He said, ‘A helper.’” H11
النضر بن سويد عن زرعة عن أبي بصير قال: سمعت أبا عبد الله عليه السلام يقول: إن الرحم معلقة بالعرش تنادى يوم القيامة: اللهم صل من وصلني واقطع من قطعني فقلت أهي رحم رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله؟ فقال: بل رحم رسول الله منها وقال: ان الرحم تأتى يوم القيامة مثل كبة المدار وهو المغزل فمن أتاها واصلاها انتشرت له نورا حتى تدخله الجنة ومن اتاها قاطعا لها انقبضت عنه حتى تقذف به في النار.
12.Al-Naḍr ibn Suwayd narrated from Zurʿah, from Abū Baṣīr who said, “I heard Abā ʿAbdillāh say, ‘Verily the womb, suspended from the [Divine] Throne, will call out on the Day of Judgment, “O Allah, keep ties with the one who kept my ties and cut off the one who severed my ties.”’ I asked, ‘Is this [in reference to] the womb [relations] of the Messenger of Allah (ṣ)?’ He replied, ‘Rather, the womb [relations] of the Messenger of Allah is one of them.’ He also said, ‘Verily the womb will come on the Day of Judgment in the form of a rotating object, which is [akin to] a spindle, so whoever comes to it having established its ties, it will spread light out for him until he enters Paradise, but whoever comes to it having severed its ties, it constricts him until it casts him into the Fire.’”
علي بن النعمان عن ابن مسكان عن أبي حمزة عن يحيى ابن أم الطويل قال: خطب أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام الناس فحمد الله وأثنى عليه ثم قال: لا يستغنى الرجل وإن كان ذا مال وولد عن عشيرته وعن مداراتهم وكرامتهم ودفاعهم عنه بأيديهم وألسنتهم هم أعظم الناس حياطة له من ورائه والمهم لشؤونه وأعظمهم عليه حنوا (حسرة) ان اصابته مصيبة أو نزل به يوما بعض مكاره الأمور ومن يقبظ يديه عن عشيرته فإنما يقبض عنهم يدا واحدة وتقبض عنه منهم أيدي كثيرة ومن محض عشيرته صدق المودة وبسط عليهم يده بالمعروف إذا وجده ابتغاء وجه الله اخلف الله له ما أنفق في دنياه وضاعف له الاجر في آخرته واخوان الصدق في الناس خير من المال يأكله ويورثه، لا يزدادن أحدكم في أخيه زاهدا ولا يجعل منه بديلا إذا لم ير منه مرفقا أو يكون مقفورا من المال، لا يغفلن (يعزلن) أحدكم من القرابة يرى به الخصاصة ان يسدها مما لا يضره ان أنفقه ولا ينفعه ان أمسكه.
13.ʿAlī ibn al-Nuʿmān narrated from Ibn Muskān, from Abū Ḥamzah, from Yaḥyā ibn Umm al-Ṭawīl who said, “Amīr al-Muʾminīn (a) once gave a sermon to the people in which he praised Allah and glorified Him, then said, ‘Even if a man is wealthy and has many children, he is never needless of his tribe and of their fellowship, respect, and their support of him with their hands and tongues. They are the greatest people in their defence of him in his absence, and the most important [supporters] for his affairs, and those who have the most sympathy for him when he is afflicted by some calamity or some mishap befalls him. Whoever withdraws his hand from his tribe, it is only a single hand he withdraws from them while many hands are [thereby] withdrawn from Him. Yet the one who offers pure and true affection to his tribe, and extends his hand to do good to them [and aid them financially] when possible, in order to please Allah, Allah compensates him for what he spends in this world and multiplies his reward in the Hereafter. True brothers among the people are better than wealth which one consumes and bequeaths. Let none of you ever increase in his apathy towards his brother, nor replace him with another when he sees no benefit from him, or if he is poor in [terms of material] wealth. Let none of you neglect [or abandon] any of the near of kin whom he finds to be in need, without fulfilling his need with that which would neither harm him if he spent it nor benefit him if he withheld it.’”
